Position Status: Full-Time salaried, commensurate with experience
Reports To: National Technical Assistance Manager
Posting Date: 3/22/18. Position open until filled.

Job Overview
New Entry Sustainable Farming Project’s (New Entry) mission is to improve our
local and regional food systems by training the next generation of farmers to
produce food that is sustainable, nutritious and culturally appropriate and
making this food accessible to individuals regardless of age, mobility,
ethnicity, or socio-economic status. In doing this work, New Entry provides
critical training, career development, and economic opportunity to new
farmers. The National Farmer Training Networks Manager will work as part of
New Entry’s National Programs Team to oversee the administration of New
Entry’s National Incubator Farm Training Initiative (NIFTI), Ag Apprenticeship
Learning Network (ALN) and other nationally-focused projects. This involves
managing partner networks; scheduling, planning and hosting professional
development events and conferences; developing educational resources, toolkits
and guidebooks; and supporting beginning farmer training programs with ongoing
project planning, development, advocacy, and evaluation.

New Entry operates under two fiscal sponsors – Tufts University and TSNE
MissionWorks. While this is one unified full-time position, half of the
responsibilities fall under projects/funding via Tufts and half under TSNE.
The position is therefore technically employed by Tufts 50% and TSNE 50%, and
will require your job application be submitted to both entities.

Key Job Elements:

• Conduct national planning, outreach, and technical assistance (TA) to
emerging or developing beginning farmer training and incubator farm programs
through recruiting clients and engaging partners in TA and community of
practice (CoP) efforts.
• Help develop TA protocols in areas of financial literacy, land and credit
access, and metrics and evaluation for farm incubator projects.
• Maintain national NIFTI TA request and referral system.
• Develop national webinars on beginning farmer training program topics.
• Refine and expand upon web-based national clearinghouse for farm incubator
resources.
• Develop case studies, success stories, and best practices.
• Organize multi-day NIFTI Field Schools and CoP national meetings/
conferences.
• Facilitate ongoing CoP strategies for beginning farmer program staff.
• Document and evaluate program outputs and outcomes.
• Collaborate on development of national metrics and evaluation of beginning
farmer training projects.
• Collaborate on national-level research on beginning farmer training
projects.
• Promote and distribute existing toolkits, fact sheets, and other materials.
• Collaborate with national partners on local and regional-level projects to
encourage and strengthen farm beginning farmer training programs by partnering
and serving in an advisory capacity as requested.
• Work with New Entry’s National Programs Team on other national projects as
needed.
• Promote New Entry’s work on a national scale by attending and presenting at
relevant conferences and events.
• Participate as part of a team to support the mission of New Entry by working
with staff to develop robust program metrics and evaluation tools to share
nationally and to educate New Entry staff members about best practices gleaned
from national organizations.
• Create and manage consulting agreements and contracts with program partners.
• Develop and maintain operations manuals for all aspects of National TA
program administration.

Supervisory responsibilities:

This position provides supervision to graduate student interns and work-study
students and manages technical assistance partner contracts with collaborating
organizations.

Compensation: Salary commensurate with experience, with a comprehensive
benefits package.

To Apply
New Entry encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds and experience. As
mentioned above, New Entry operates under two fiscal sponsors – Tufts
University and TSNE MissionWorks. While this is one unified full-time
position, half of the responsibilities fall under projects/funding via Tufts
and half under TSNE. The position is therefore technically employed by Tufts
50% and TSNE 50%, and will require your job application be submitted to both
entities. You must submit your cover letter and resume through both
application systems to be considered for the full-time role.